Anna Lapwood, British celebrity organist and choir director, can be bringing The Chapel Choir of Pembroke Faculty, Cambridge, to Toronto and different Canadian cities on tour. The tour will start in Montréal (July 21 to 24), then hit Québec Metropolis (July 25), Ottawa (July 26 and 27), Kingston (July 29 and 30), and end up in Toronto (August 1 to three).
The choir can be performing live shows, with Lapwood directing, and in addition singing throughout providers at most of the church buildings in the course of the tour.
Anna Lapwood
Anna Lapwood MBE is an organist, conductor and widespread broadcaster on the BBC. She has been Director of Music at Pembroke Faculty, Cambridge for a decade. She can also be the Organist of the Royal Albert Corridor and is Artist in Affiliation with the BBC Singers.
Anna’s formal music schooling started with research in piano, violin, viola and composition on the Junior Royal Academy of Music. She will be able to play a complete of 15 devices, and was the principal harpist for the Nationwide Youth Orchestra of Nice Britain and the Junior Academy Symphony Orchestra.
On her appointment, she turned the youngest individual ever to carry the title of Music Director at Pembroke Faculty. Amongst different initiatives, she based the Pembroke Faculty Ladies’ Choir for women from native colleges aged 11 to 18 in 2018, and that choir performs weekly in the course of the faculty 12 months.
As a recitalist, Anna has carried out on the Royal Albert Corridor, the Royal Pageant Corridor and St Thomas Church in New York, amongst different distinguished venues, and at cathedrals throughout Europe. She performed with UK DJ and producer Bonobo earlier than a crowd of 5,000 in 2022.
Anna was the affiliate artist at Royal Albert Corridor, and was named the Corridor’s inaugural official organist in 2025. Since her appointment there, she has leveraged a well-liked social media presence right into a discussion board for popularizing and educating fashionable audiences in regards to the historical instrument.
Her current album Firedove has been climbing up the worldwide classical music charts.
The Chapel Choir of Pembroke Faculty
The members of the Chapel Choir of Pembroke Faculty come from quite a lot of disciplines, introduced collectively of their love of choral music. The Choir is understood for its excessive customary of efficiency, and a large ranging repertoire that features each conventional sacred music and up to date classical in addition to preparations of pop music.
They’ve toured worldwide all through the UK, Europe, the US, Thailand, Zambia and past.
They’ve recorded and launched music on the Signum Data label, and recorded at Abbey Highway studio with Grammy-award successful composer Christopher Tin and singer-songwriter Tom Chaplin.
After a decade main the choir, will probably be the final tour for Lapwood, who made what she calls a “actually troublesome resolution” to surrender the place to be able to give attention to organ efficiency.
They carry out collectively on her present album, Firedove.
On the shut of her tenure as Director of Music at Pembroke Faculty, Cambridge, she’ll lead the choir in an all-night BBC Promenade at London’s Royal Albert Corridor later in August 2025.
The Program
The live performance program for the tour is different, and contains:
- All issues are fairly silent, Kerry Andrew;
- Come up, Shine Anna Lapwood;
- My coronary heart, O God Lucy Walker;
- Search Him that Maketh the Seven Stars, Jonathan Dove;
- Grandmother Moon, Eleanor Daley;
- Sleep, Eric Whitacre;
- Come to Me, Ivo Antognini;
- Vigilate, William Byrd;
- Everybody Sang, David Bednall;
- Leonardo Desires of his Flying Machine, Eric Whitacre;
- Make You Really feel My Love, Bob Dylan/arr. Lapwood.
Together with the Choir and Lapwood, organ students Molly Hord and Sophia Membery can be taking part in the organ accompaniment.
The Tour Dates
Among the live shows name for pay-what-you-can admission, with recommended donations from $20 to $40. With the tour simply introduced, a few of the areas don’t have on-line listings for the occasions; test with the areas to make certain. Word additionally that the live shows are paid occasions; after all the providers usually are not.
Montréal
Québec Metropolis (July 25)
- July 25: Basilique to Notre-Dame de Québec, midday (service)
Ottawa (July 26 and 27)
- July 26: St. Barnabas, 7:30 p.m.
- July 27: St. Barnabas, 7:15 p.m. (Evensong)
Kingston (July 29 and 30)
Toronto (August 1 to three)
- New: Ticket hyperlink for Toronto [HERE]
- August 1: St. Mary Magdalene, 7:30 p.m.
- August 2: Holy Household Church, 7:30 p.m.
- August 3: St. Mary Magdalene, 10:30 a.m. (service)
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Anya Wassenberg is the Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. Beforehand, she was a contract author with a specialty in tradition and journey for 3 a long time, and a inventive writing teacher for Ontariolearn.